Seafish is encouraging UK fishermen to make the most of free places available on training courses while funding remains available from the European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and the Maritime & Coastguard Agency.
Commenting on his remarks a few days ago that resulted in an angry backlash from UK fishermen, Boulogne trawler skipper and President of the Hauts-de-France Fisheries Committee Olivier Lepretre commented that his words were intentionally strong ones.
When a Norwegian longliner docked last year with a full fishroom of cod caught around Jan Mayen, there was immediate speculation as to where this fish had appeared from – in an area that isn’t known for heavy cod fishing.
Fish will fly when Australia’s seafood capital hosts its iconic Tunarama Festival this weekend, and the population of Port Lincoln more than doubles during the annual event with twenty thousand visitors heading to South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula for Tunarama.
The keel of the first of a series of new trawlers for the Russian Fishery Company has been laid at the Admiralty Shipyard, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, in St Petersburg. The yard has also begun cutting steel for a second vessel, and the first pair of trawlers are expected to be delivered in the first half of 2020.
The European Parliament (EP) Committee on Fisheries gave its consent to conclude the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) between the EU and Morocco, a development welcomed by European fisheries body Europêche which sees an agreement as promoting sustainable and responsible fisheries for the EU and Morocco, securing mutual benefits, and contributing to the strict observance of international law.
In the light of the ongoing uncertainty around the UK’s expected departure from the European Union in two months, the European Commission has adopted legislative proposals designed to soften the blow of Britain crashing out of the EU in a No Deal outcome.
Spanish electronics supplier Nautical has appointed Carmelo Zabala as its new managing director with immediate effect.
An order placed by fishing group Norebo with the Severnaya Verf (Northern Shipyard) in St Petersburg for six trawlers has been boosted with an additional four of these 81 metre factory vessels. The additional four 170710 project trawlers are to be delivered 2020-2023.
HB Grandi’s freezer trawler Örfirisey is now fishing in the Norwegian zone of the Barents Sea, and according to skipper Ævar Jóhannesson, they started fishing on 6th January after a four days’ steaming from Iceland.
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